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23 Proposals to Revitalize our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country

"No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation…Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.” —Thomas Jefferson (in a letter to James Madison from Paris, September 6, 1789)

 
 
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A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize
Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country

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